Me: “But the control rats, who didn’t get any GM feed or pesticide treatment died of the same causes at 70% or 7 of the ten rats?”

Seralini: “Yes.”

Me: “So what killed the control rats?”

Seralini: “That’s not in our report.”

Me: “But what was it?”

Seralini: “I don’t know.”

Me: “Then how do you know that whatever killed the control rats didn’t also kill the experimental rats?”

And that’s the entire issue right there. If every single control rat had survived with zero tumors, then one might be able to make the claim that there was a link between the cancers and the GM feed/pesticide.

But that’s not what happened. In fact, in the male rats, out of 9 experimental groups, the control groups had MORE deaths than 8 of them.

Something was killing the rats, but there can be no link drawn between the GM corn and the deaths. Because we don’t know what killed the control rats, so we (and I mean no one) can say that the deaths in the experimental groups was not caused by the same thing that killed the control rats. We simply don’t know.

If Seralini had bothered to do a statistical analysis of his work, then he would have seen that instantly. Honestly, myself and a bunch of other scientists are shocked that this paper was cleared for publication. I think (and this happened to Seralini before) that is was cleared to prevent claims of ‘suppressing’ anti-GM experiments. Which is just conspiracy theory writ large.

People have all kinds of idiotic ideas about what scientists are like. Unfortunately, they spend to much time reading Spiderman and not enough time watching NOVA.

It was probably hoped that everyone would see that there can be no links and the claims made by Seralini are ridiculous. But Seralini prevented that and had a press conference. Of course, public opinion is not how science is done. Unfortunately, morons who don’t understand that humans have been genetically modifying crops and food animals for centuries are trying to destroy the very group that is most likely to support them… if the evidence is there.

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